youronlyone, 2 months ago to fediverse

If you haven't heard, sadly, #ChirpSocial, one of the popular #ActivityPub “groups” platform, is shutting down “probably” on February 29th.

In an email they sent to admins, the owner and developer can no longer support https://chirp.social financially as they failed to find a new job after they were laid off by #Google last year.

So, if you have a Chirp.Social groups, either move to #Guppe (https://a.gup.pe) (as suggested by Chirp.Social), or if I may, to #FediaIO (https://fedia.io), an #Mbin [flagship] instance.

This reminds us the importance of having a built-in groups feature, and one where the groups feature actually federates.

Back in 2008, when the #Fediverse was born, we did have a built-in federated groups in #Laconica / #StatusNet (today known as #GNUsocial). We used bang (!) instead of at (@). A built-in groups feature is more stable as established instances can host them.

Today, we have #Friendica and #Hubzilla (as well as #Streams-based instances) to fill in that, as groups is a built-in feature in those software products. It's just a matter of finding an instance that's open to hosting groups for any topic for the ActivityPub protocol.

That said, any Friendica, Hubzilla, Streams-based instances you suggest for groups?

reticuleena, 7 months ago to twitter German

Wir schreiben das Jahr 2011. Der Elektrische Reporter erklärt #Microblogging am Beispiel von #Twitter und lässt sogar die Kritik an geschlossenen Plattformen nicht aus. (#Fediverse gabs ja noch nicht.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wz_umllvhA

Ein echtes Zeitzeugnis. Spannend, was seither daraus geworden ist. Wie die Kritik an der Belanglosigkeit seiner Inhalte wich und Twitter zu einem bedeutsamen politischen Sprachrohr wurde. Wie sich Hass und Hetze breit machten und wie es nun den Bach runter geht. Wie es mal von offenen APIs profitierte und nun keine externen Apps mehr zulässt.

tk, 8 months ago to fediverse

Anyone who wasn't on the #Fediverse in the #Laconica / #StatusNet / #GNUSocial days is but a wee gnoob. #Mastodon

marqle, 8 months ago to twitter

@Peternimmo @gme

I joined #Twitter in 2008. I don't think there were more than a thousand people around.

My introduction to the #fediverse, was probably #identica, if #statusnet counts ?

After that it was probably #friendica. I think the first genuine implementation of #ActivityPub was #pumpio wasn't it? I never actually got there.

koalie, 10 months ago to CSS

I had forgotten that I had "-webkit transform: rotate (20deg)" on body in my local safari.css!

I just found this June 2012 photo of my laptop screen, which I took after rebooting when my browser loaded my local user style 😄

Featuring one of the posts from @evan on identi.ca (his creation!) and my posts had been sent from StatusNet (his creation too) on iPhone. This page is the “home” I had set up for @w3c

#css #identica #StatusNet #w3c

march, 1 year ago to random German

so. das archiv ist gezippt. frau frohmann schrieb neulich, dass das radikalste aktuell meist sei, etwas nicht mehr zu tun. und das ist deeper, als einiges, was ich in letzter zeit gelesen habe.